英语词汇“tied to apron strings”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	tied to apron strings
释义	tied to apron strings SEE SYNONYMS FOR tied to apron strings ON THESAURUS.COM Wholly dependent on or controlled by a woman, especially one's mother or wife. For example, At 25, he was still too tied to her apron strings to get an apartment of his own. This expression, dating from the early 1800s, probably alluded to apron-string tenure, a 17th-century law that allowed a husband to control his wife's and her family's property during her lifetime. Words nearby tied to apron strings Tieck, tie clasp, tied, tied house, tie-down, tied to apron strings, tied up, tie-dye, tie-dyed, tie-dyeing, tie-in The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Words related to tied to apron strings poor, defenseless, vulnerable, reliant, subordinate, inferior, minor, secondary, clinging, debased, immature, indigent, lesser, under, abased, counting on, humbled, under thumb, unsustaining
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tied to apron strings